Slutty matryoshka dolls

on the infinite appeal of recursive cartoons

Hello hello, two quick things first:

• I’ll be at the Novitate Conference in DC on November 3 alongside the novelists Brandon Taylor and Trevor Cribben Merrill, discussing the impact of Girardian thought on contemporary novel-writing

• ICYMI check out Cecilia Rabess’s recent piece in the WSJ, “The Rise of the MBA Novelist”—I was delighted to receive a shout-o…